The new Down Wash Direct® is the first product specifically designed to clean and maintain natural and hydrophobic feathers. It provides an easy solution for the care of clothes and sleeping bags filled with natural and treated feathers.
Down Wash Direct® ensures excellent cleaning effects, maintains or increases the water repellency of all types of hydrophobic feathers and the outer surface of the fabric in feather-filled clothing and sleeping bags, and improves the water repellency of natural feathers which absorbs 40 times less water.
Nanotechnology and KWAK
Vapor permeability
Ret 3 Pa.m2.W-1
MVTR 40 000 g/m2/24 hours
Extreme water resistance
Water column height 12 000 mm / 1 dm2
Breathability - windproofness
99,3% - 0,129 mm.s-1 0,025 cfm
Hydrophobic and oleophobic surface treatment
DWR C6 highest class - lotus effect water, oil, fluorocarbon (PFC-no free)
Ret - measures the resistance that is given to water vapor.
MVTR - measures water vapor permeability.
These two quantities express opposite values when measured.